Industrial – Page 150

  • News

    EPISO buys into Prague logistics through VGP joint venture

    2011-03-17T14:45:00Z

    EPISO, co-advised by AEW Europe and Tristan Capital, takes 80% ownership of semi-industrial complexes.

  • News

    Helios teams up with HG for European logistics push

    2011-01-31T13:30:00Z

    European specialist logistics developer enters €1bn joint venture with Eindhoven-based developer.

  • News

    Virginia makes $150m commitment to CIM urban fund

    2010-12-20T16:00:00Z

    GLOBAL - Virginia Retirement System has approved a $150m (€113.8m) commitment to the CIM VI Urban REIT Fund. Pension fund officials stated that this commitment will be funded over the next four and a half years.

  • News

    LACERA receives 28 responses to debt manager search

    2010-12-16T16:00:00Z

    GLOBAL - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has received 28 responses to its search for real estate debt managers.

  • News

    Finnish insurer pays more for long lease logistics

    2010-06-03T16:00:00Z

    FINLAND – Finnish pensions insurer OP-Henkivakuutus Oy has acquired two assets – one light industrial, the other a warehouse – from a UK fund for €20.7m, reflecting a yield of 7.5%.

  • News

    GIC ‘will not list’ real estate portfolio

    2010-06-01T16:15:00Z

    GLOBAL – GIC’s European head of real estate today denied reports that Singapore’s largest sovereign wealth fund (SWF) plans to list its real estate portfolio. However, he did not deny that the fund could list a portion of it.

  • News

    Germany’s BVK signals fresh interest in Polish real estate

    2010-04-22T16:40:00Z

    GERMANY – Invesco Real Estate has invested in a logistics development in Poland on behalf of pension fund BVK, and says there is growing interest in the market from other German institutional investors.

  • News

    BRIC-built recovery expected - JLL

    2010-03-25T16:38:00Z

    GLOBAL – The BRIC countries will lead the global real estate market recovery as their economic expansion boosts occupier demand across all sectors and cross-border investment returns, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

  • News

    Value emerging in industrials - Hansteen

    2010-03-25T16:36:00Z

    UK – European industrial real estate investment trust (REIT) Hansteen has purchased an industrial estate and is in due diligence on three others for its new UK fund backed by institutional investors.

  • News

    UK and Nordic pension investors opt for Nordic logistics fund

    2010-03-11T18:05:00Z

    UK/NORDICS - A group of large Nordic and UK institutional investors have invested in a new logistics real estate fund offered by Nordic Real Estate Partners, which will invest in Nordic logistics properties.

  • News

    Cordea Savills to tap income from UK real estate

    2010-01-25T18:03:00Z

    EUROPE – Cordea Savills has secured capital commitments from three investors, including an unnamed European pension fund, for a new fund that will invest in core, income-producing commercial real estate in the UK.

  • News

    Alecta outsources French real estate management

    2010-01-18T17:26:00Z

    SWEDEN – The asset management arm of Swedish occupational pensions mutual Alecta is to transfer the management of its real estate portfolio in France.

  • Magazine

    Delivering opportunity

    December 2009 (Magazine)

    Consolidation among logistics suppliers and the reorganisation of company supply chains post recession means it’s time to take a new look at logistics in 2010. Paul Benjamin reports

  • Magazine

    Demanding data

    December 2009 (Magazine)

    A new research paper by AMB looks at the current relationship between trade, production, and inventory and its impact on industrial real estate demand. David Twist reports

  • News

    Varma acts on real estate regrowth

    2009-10-19T18:00:00Z

    FINLAND – VR Pension Fund has re-entered the real estate market after a two-year absence, following the decision by a Finnish construction company to sell assets to local pension funds.

  • News

    BAE Pension taps coastal space

    2009-09-21T17:41:00Z

    UK – The pension fund of BAE Systems in the UK has bought a retail warehouse through property fund managers LaSalle Investment Management.

  • News

    CPPIB and GIC turn to Brazilian real estate

    2009-08-17T17:47:00Z

    AMERICAS – The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), investment manager of the $105bn (€73.9bn) Canada Pension Plan, has entered into a joint venture with Brazilian property developer Cyrela Commercial Properties (CPP) to invest in commercial real estate in Brazil.

  • News

    Canadian pension fund develops Chinese connection

    2009-08-10T17:15:00Z

    CANADA/CHINA – The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), investment manager of the $105bn (€73.9bn) Canada Pension Plan, has entered into a joint venture (JV) with Goodman Group to own and develop logistics assets in mainland China.

  • News

    BMW pension redistributes its real estate

    2009-07-27T18:10:00Z

    UK – The UK pension fund of car manufacturer BMW has sold a distribution centre in Europort, Wakefield to UK real estate company Patrick Properties.

  • News

    Texas Teachers makes industrial acquisition

    2009-06-29T17:50:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System of Texas has made one of the largest industrial acquisitions of the year by investing $410m (€292.8m) into TLF Logistics.